Movies: Soumitra Chatterjee

Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old college friend on a trip up-country to a village wedding....

In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish h...

Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural ta...

The story revolves around a North Indian taxi driver, Narsingh, who attempts to reinvent his life by visiting his native place, but instead gets embroiled in a local Marwari businessman's smuggling and human trafficking business. Preserved by the Ac...

A young boy becomes a target for crooks, after he claims to remember his past life and mentions precious jewels in a golden fortress....

A devout upper-class Hindu has a vision in a dream that his daughter-in-law is the human incarnation of the Goddess Kali and begins worshipping her....

A swimming coach who teaches swimming to underprivileged kids picks Kony from a slum of Calcutta and grooms her to be part of the Bengal swimming team to compete at the National Swimming Championship. However, politics, poverty and social stigma emer...

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy....

Gangacharan is the new Brahmin of a village, where he assumes various duties: teaching, organizing religious events, and trying to prevent epidemics. But in that year 1943, war is raging (as reminded by the planes occasionally heard flying over the c...

Abhiroop Mukherji, an ambitious scientist, is trying to connect with aliens and finally succeeds in his experiment. But when a gangster kidnaps him to gain power using his experiment, an unexpected friend helps him....

Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local ho...

Hemlock Society is a school that teaches aspirants how to successfully commit suicide. Meghna, one of the aspirants, has a near-death experience, turning everybody's lives upside-down....

As an elderly couple prepare to celebrate their 50th anniversary, their family begins to gather at their once magnificent mansion. Relatives, both young and old, reminisce about the family's history, bringing long-buried secrets to the surface....

History unfolds many truths. The more we dig in, the more we come to know about the realities of the past. But sometimes, some truths remain hidden and unventured. It is our wisdom and sixth sense with which we discover those hidden truths. The histo...

A young engineer Niren marries a young widow Rama who already has a five-year-old child Tutul from her previous marriage. Their marital life grows increasingly difficult as Tutul refuses to recognize his stepfather. Niren's attempts to win him over f...

A journey through the life of an aged Bengali poet, Shashibhushan. Shashbhushan, now blind, reflects on his past. Stimulated by sounds - songs, crows, traffic, and an electronic lighter - he recalls the now-vanished arts and literature scene of post ...

An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate....

The story of a Bengali joint family which starts as the mother refuses to acknowledge the foreign-returned wife of her son and her child from a previous marriage....

When Goopy and Bagha learn about Hirak Raja's tyranny, they try to set him right with the help of Udayan, a school teacher, and their magical powers....

After 23 years of marriage, a woman is bored with her mundane existence. Based on her friend’s suggestion, she decides to try a career in writing, but her family is against it....